A review by chillcox15
The Second Body by Daisy Hildyard

2.0

2.5 Stars. Daisy Hildyard's exploration of how our embodied experience (our first body) affects our connectivity to the wider ecological world (our second body) has some occasionally good bits, but the argument as it is presented is completely lackluster. There's no real satisfying justification or explanation of the 'second body' concept as the totalized metaphor for the piece. I like the idea of challenging our conceptions of the boundaries between ourselves and the greater world, and the boundaries between species, but this just reads as fairly limp and unpassionate.